The Baltimore Consort specializes in Renaissance song ( mostly English ) with broken consort ( including viols ).

The five-part section includes vocal part-songs which show the influence of the ‘ adapted consort song ’ style of the 1588 set but which seem to have been conceived as all-vocal part-songs.

He also raised the consort song, the church anthem and the Anglican service setting to new heights.

The consort of Ea, known as Ninhursag, Ki, Uriash Damkina, " lady of that which is below ", or Damgalnunna, " big lady of the waters ", originally was fully equal with Ea, but in more patriarchal Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian times plays a part merely in association with her lord.

* 1557 – King Philip II of Spain, consort of Queen Mary I of England, sets out from Dover to war with France, which eventually results in the loss of the City of Calais, the last English possession on the continent, and Mary I never seeing her husband again.

He wrote a consort piece with the punning title " Semper Dowland, semper dolens " ( always Dowland, always doleful ), which may be said to sum up much of his work.

Loki retorts that Freyr purchased his consort Gerðr with gold, having given away his sword, which he will lack at Ragnarök.

# Valide Sultan Emine Hatun, daughter of Suleyman Bey, ruler of Dulkadirids, third consort, which marriage served as an alliance between the Ottoman's and this buffer state, mother of Murad II

Alternate tunings ( called scordatura ) were often employed, particularly in the solo lyra viol style of playing, which also made use of many techniques such as chords and pizzicato, not generally used in consort playing.

Only the treble, tenor, and bass sizes were regular members of the viol consort, which consisted of three, four, five, or six instruments.

The female equivalent of mep ' e is dedop ' ali (" queen "), which was applied to queens consort or the king's closest, senior female relatives.

He and his third consort, Bona Sforza, daughter of Gian Galeazzo Sforza of Milan, were both patrons of Renaissance culture, which under them began to flourish in Poland and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Henry explicitly stated that he would defend Tuscany from Spanish aggression, but later reneged, after which Ferdinando was forced to marry his heir, Cosimo, to Maria Maddalena of Austria to assuage Spain ( where Maria Maddalena's sister was the incumbent Queen consort ).

The latter include the Ground in Gamut ( described as ' Mr Byrd's old ground ') by his future pupil Thomas Tomkins, the A minor fantasia and probably the first of Byrd's great series of keyboard pavans and galliards, a composition which was transcribed by Byrd from an original for five-part consort.

The first, Psalms, Sonnets and Songs of Sadness and Pietie ( 1588 ) consists mainly of adapted consort songs, which Byrd, probably guided by commercial instincts, had turned into vocal part-songs by adding words to the accompanying instrumental parts and labelling the original solo voice as ‘ the first singing part ’.

The period up to 1591 also saw important additions to Byrd's output of consort music, some of which has probably been lost.

Byrd also played a role in the emergence of the new verse anthem, which seems to have evolved in part from the practice of adding vocal refrains to consort songs.

The native tradition of Latin music which Byrd had done so much to keep alive more or less died with him, while consort music underwent a huge change of character at the hands of a new generation of professional musicians at the Jacobean and Caroline courts.

Although in the United Kingdom there is no strict legal or formal definition of who is or is not a member of the Royal Family, and different lists will include different people, those carrying the style Her or His Majesty ( HM ), or Her or His Royal Highness ( HRH ) are always considered members, which usually results in the application of the term to the monarch, the consort of the monarch, the widowed consorts of previous monarchs, the children of the monarch and previous monarchs, the male-line grandchildren of the monarch and previous monarchs, and the spouses and the widows of a monarch's and previous monarch's sons and male-line grandsons.

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon ( 4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002 ) was the queen consort of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952, after which she was known as Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, to avoid confusion with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth engaged in acts of Christian piety, which was in keeping with what was expected of a medieval queen consort.

She was educated in drawing, painting, music and dancing – the disciplines which would have prepared her for the role of queen consort.

Other versions include the Mute Cornett, which is a straight narrow-bore instrument with integrated mouthpiece, quiet enough to be used in a consort of viols or even recorders.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

His daughter Aryenis of Lydia was Queen consort of Astyages, King of Media.

He was a son of Peter III of Aragon and his Queen consort Constance of Sicily, daughter and heiress of Manfred of Sicily.

* Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain was born in Ansbach in 1683.

He makes no reference to individual members of the harem except for a domineering Queen consort named Amestris, whose father, Otanes, was one of Xerxes's generals.

Balmoral has been one of the residences of the British Royal Family since 1852, when it was purchased by Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert.

The main weapons of assassination chosen organised the successful assassination of King Alexander I of Serbia and his consort Draga ; he confirmed that Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic, who had personally led the group of Army officers who killed the royal couple in the Old Palace at Belgrade on the night of 28 / 29 May 1903 ( Old Style ), was also the Black Hand's leader.

Catharine of Aragon ( Castilian: Catalina de Aragón ; ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536 ) was the Spanish Queen consort of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII of England and Princess of Wales as the wife to Arthur, Prince of Wales.

See below for another Dryope, consort of Faunus, who was seen as the Roman equivalent of Pan.

As well as being Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she was queen consort of France ( 1137 – 1152 ) and of England ( 1154 – 1189 ).

Daughters of others than imperials remained concubines, until Emperor Shōmu — in what was specifically reported as the first elevation of its kind — elevated his Fujiwara consort Empress Kōmyō to chief wife.

Since there was no " title " of Empress (- consort ) whatsoever, women of the reigning dynasty sought to be granted this honorific, as the highest attainable goal.

When the daughter of a chūnagon became the favored consort of the Crown Prince Ate ( later known as Heizei-tennō ), her father's power and position in court was affected.

He was the second son of Emperor Kimmei by his consort Iwahime, a daughter of Emperor Senka.

* In 586, Emperor Yōmei took his half-sister, whose mother was another of Iname's daughters, Soga no Oane Hime, as his consort.

Empress Suiko was a consort to her half-brother, Emperor Bidatsu, but after Bidatsu's first wife died she became his official consort and was given the title Ōkisaki ( official consort of the emperor ).

* 593: In the 2nd year of Sushun-tennō's reign ( 崇峻天皇2年 ), he died ; and contemporary scholars then construed that the succession (‘‘ senso ’’) was received by the consort of former Emperor Bidatsu.

When the daughter of a chūnagon became the favored consort of the Crown Prince Ate ( later known as Heizei-tennō ), her father's power and position in court was affected.

According to the Kojiki and the Nihonshoki, Ōjin was the son of the Emperor Chūai and his consort Jingū.

According to Kojiki and Nihonshoki, he was the fourth son of Emperor Nintoku and his consort Iwanohime, and therefore a younger brother of his predecessor Emperor Hanzei.